I'm a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University. My research centers on semantics, pragmatics, and their interfaces. I am currently working on the meaning and structure of biased polar questions in Chinese, and I'm also interested in polarity items and negatives cross-linguistically.

Please contact me at shumianye at gmail dot com.

• From maximality to bias: Biased A-not-A questions in Mandarin Chinese

August 2020. Focus Workshop at SALT 30, Cornell University. (Project page)

• Negated disjunctions in Mandarin revisited

October 2020. Second Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning, Tsinghua University.

• The semantics of response particles in Mandarin Chinese

December 2020. The 21st Symposium on the Grammar of Mandarin Chinese, Peking University.

• Strategies of inquiry: Focus and contrastive topic in polar questions

In press. Theoretical Linguistics 46(1-2).